Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-10

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have the right to purchase three dry and
strictly pastural sections upon his making
oath that he is not acting in collision
with others for the purpose of buying the
land for any other person or corporation,
and that no other person or corporation
is directly or indirectly interested
| in the purchase of the same; provided
further, that any purchaser and actual
settler upon any of the public free school
! lands, University and asylum lands, under
any former law, who, for any cause, has
! failed to pay the principal and interest, or
either, due the state upon such land on
the 1St day of August, a. d. 1886, and by
reasons of such failure or default such
purchasers lands has or may beifOrfeited
| to the state, such purchaser shall have
| the prior right, for six months from the
date this act takes effect, to purchase his
| said land at such price as the unpaid prin-
| ciple at the time of the default, and the
! interest due thereon under such former
| purchase up to the time he purchases I'M
der this act shall aggregate; and such
purchaser shall in all other respects be
governed by the same penalties, restric-
! lions and requirements enjOined by this
act upon other purchasers and actual set
tiers.
! Sec. 9. All sales shall be made by the
! Commissioner of the General Land Office,
or under his direction, and he shall pre-
scribe suitable regulations whereby all
purchasers shall be required to reside
upon, as home, the land purchased by
them, for three consecutive years next
succeeding the date OF their purchase,
such regulations shall require the pur
chaser to reside upon the land for three
consecutive years herein mentioned, and
% make proper proof of such residence
and occupancy to the Commissioner of
the General Land Office, within one year
next after the expiration Of s&id three
years, by his atlfiavit, COrrObOrated by
three disinteresteG and Credit6ble citizens
of the county, to be certified to by some
officer of the county wherein the land
is situated authOiZed to admins
ter oaths. ANY person desiring TO
purchase land in accordance with
the provisions Of this act, shall
forward his application to the commits
sioner, particularly describing the land
sought to be purchased, which applica-
ton shall in all cases be accompanied
with the affidavit of the applicant, in
effect that he desires to purchase the land
for home, and has in good faith settled
is not acting IN collision with others Tor
the purpose Of buying the land for any
other person or corporation, and that no
other person or corporation is interested
in the purchase save himself. The pur-
chaser shall transmit to the Treasurer of
the state One-fGrlieth Of the aggregate
purchase money for the particular tract Of
land; and send to the commissioners his
obligation to the state, duly executed,
and binding the purchaser to pay to the
state on the lst day Of August OF each
year thereafter, until the whole purchase
money is paid, One-fortieth of the aggre-
gated price, with interest thereon from
date at the rate Of per cent. per annum
on the whole unpaid purchase money,
! which interest shall also be payable on
the first day of August of each year; and
upon receipt of one fortieth of the puT-
chase money by the Treasurer, and the
affidavit and obligation aforesaid by the
commissioner, he sale shall be deemed and
held effective from the date the affidavit
and obligation are filed in the general land
office; provided, that if the land applied for
be timbered land then the purchaser shall
be required to pay the full amount of the
purchase money at the time Of the pur-
cha Sc.
Sec. 10. All purchasers shall have the
option OF paying the purchase money for
their lands in full at any time after they
have occupied the same for three con
sccutive years, and when they have made
such payment in full, toge her with the
proof that they have occupied the land
and homestead for three consecutive
years, they shall be entitled to receive
patents for the same upon payment of
the patent fees prescribed by law. Pur-
Chasers may also sell their lands at any
time after sale is effected under this act,
and in such cases the vendee or any sub
sequent yendee may file his own obliZa-
ton with the Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office, together with
the duly authenticated conveyance
or transfer from the original
purchaser, and the intermediate
vendee's conveyance or transfer, if any
there be, duly recorded in the county
where theIands les or to which it mag be
attached for judicial purpose, together
with his affidavit, stating that he desires
to purchase the land for a home and that
he has in good faith settled thereon and
that he is not acting collision with
others for the purpose OF buying the land
for any OtherpersOn or corporation, and
thst no other person or corporation Is in
terested in the purchase save himsel.,
and thereupOn the original obligation
may be surrendered or cancelled, and the
veGdee shall become the purchaser direct
from the state and be subject to all The
obligations and penalties prescribed by
this act, and the original purchaser shall
be absolved.
Sec. II. If upon the first day OF August
of any year the interest due on any ooli-
cation remains unpaid, the Commissioner
of the General Land Office shall irdorse
on such obligation Gland forfeited" and
shall cause an entry to that effect to be
made on the account kept with the pur-
chaser, and thereupOn said land shall DE
forfeited to the state without the neces-
sity Of re-entry Gr judicial ascertainment,
and shall revert to the particular fund to
which it originally belonged, and be re-
sold under the provisions of this act, or
any future law; provided, If any pur-
chaser shall die, his heirs or legal repre-
sentative shall have one year in which to
make payment after the first
of August next, after such
death. And if any purchaser
shall fail to reside upon and improve in
good faith the land purchased by him, ne
shall forfeit said land and all payments
made thereon to the state, and such land
shall be again for sale, as if no such sale
and forfeiture had occurred, or If he shall
fail 10 make the proof Of occupancy with
in the time and in the manner prescribed
by the regulations of the Commissioner
of the General Land Office, as provided
for IN section of this act, he shall in
ike manner forfeit the land all payments
| thereon to the state: and provided fur-